Casey At The Bat
Getting ready for game 5, why not a little Casey At The Bat?
Do you know Casey's Mudville almost certainly has to be Stockton, CA? Name-checking the other players mentioned in the poem (Barrows, Flynn & Cooney) show all of them to be actual players on the Stockton team in 1888; when it was first published in the SF (Daily) Examiner. Thayer also regularly reported on the Stockton team. But who was Casey? And will he return, to haunt Troy Glaus tonight?
Today's favorite headline: "All Tied On The Western Front."
Getting ready for game 5, why not a little Casey At The Bat?
Do you know Casey's Mudville almost certainly has to be Stockton, CA? Name-checking the other players mentioned in the poem (Barrows, Flynn & Cooney) show all of them to be actual players on the Stockton team in 1888; when it was first published in the SF (Daily) Examiner. Thayer also regularly reported on the Stockton team. But who was Casey? And will he return, to haunt Troy Glaus tonight?
Today's favorite headline: "All Tied On The Western Front."
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